Photo Flash: Isaac Mizrahi's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

[ljay889]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 2:06pm

What in the world is Henrik wearing?



Raine's suit looks almost identical to Hanson's act 2 suit from our revival.


https://tinyurl.com/24wnf6z


Updated On: 6/7/10 at 02:06 PM

[wonkit]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 2:16pm

Henrik looks too mature to be playing a seminarian.

[laura is broadway]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 3:02pm

Anne does not look 18...

[Brick]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 3:16pm

Really? I think she does..

I think whole productions look beautiful, if a tad over designed. I'd take over our the very under designed B'way revival. I get the Chekhovian approach and pacing, but why must everyone wear black in Act I?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:19pm

I didn't realize Isaac Mizrahi directed stage productions, I take it Scarlett Johansson won't be making an appearance

I like the design, how I wish the Broadway revival had something similar to this. I agree with you, Brick, "under-designed" is an excellent way to describe the current revival.
And yes, the suit Fredrick is wearing in the original post looks very much like the one Hanson wears.
I'd have loved to see Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Desiree costumes as beautiful as she manages to look in the Nunn production.

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[AC126748]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:24pm

This production looks absolutely stunning.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[ColorTheHours048]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:44pm

Is no one else seeing what I'm seeing? What the hell is Henrik wearing?! And why is Mr. Erlanson wearing wings?!

This is an overdesigned mess, in my opinion.

[ljay889]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:45pm

^ Agreed. I think the set is ugly too. Love all of that AstroTurf.

[somethingwicked]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:46pm

ColorTheHours048, it's all part of Mizrahi's concept, which sets the show in a "magical forest" complete with fairies ala A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

He talks about it here:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/stage/story/E0BBBA7F62C5FAC68625773100756CB5?OpenDocument

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 6/7/10 at 04:46 PM

[wicked1492]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:47pm

I prefer this set over the current revival any day. It's beautiful.

"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times

[ColorTheHours048]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 4:49pm

Oh, for Christ's sake.

[Auggie27]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:06pm

Looks lovely.

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[South Fl Marc]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:10pm

It does, and I would love to see Sean Phillips and Amy Irving in this. I bet they are wonderful.

[Eos]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:12pm

I always love Opera Theatre St. Louis' productions, and I can't WAIT to see this next week! I'm also glad I saw the revival on my recent trip to NYC, since I think Isaac's version will be anything but "traditional".

The Overture is part of the show, people. Please shut your pie hole.

Updated On: 6/7/10 at 06:12 PM

[Auggie27]

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Posted: 6/7/10 at 6:16pm

Doesn't Ms Phillips look like Kyra Sedgewick in about 40 years? (And come to think of it, Mrs. Bacon would also make a lovely desiree.)

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[choitoy]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 4:10am

I really like the set and the women's costumes. The men's costumes.... What's with all the sleeveless shirts? Really Isaac... Really!?!

Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!

[Mildred Plotka]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 4:16am

The expressions of the Henrik are priceless.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[best12bars]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 5:15am

I think this looks elegant and romantic.







A far cry from that funereal and claustrophobic design disaster on Broadway. The more I see photos of other productions, the more I grow to hate the look of the revival.

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Updated On: 6/8/10 at 05:15 AM

[Mildred Plotka]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 5:19am

I also enjoy that they're eating at a table and not squatting like bohemians.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[PalJoey]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 7:10am

A discussion nearly turned into a fisticuffs last night with a man who lives in my building over the "beauty" of the current production. He began by saying "THIS is how Might Music should be done" and ended by admitting he had never seen the original.

[best12bars]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 9:21am

Most people who love the look of the revival have never seen another production of Night Music on stage.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[best12bars]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 9:25am

I like this one from France ...



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[givesmevoice]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 9:40am

I actually am kind of feeling that concept. Although you're spot on with the Telephone Hour reference.

I can't decide if I completely love the Mizrahi designs, but I do like it more than the current revival.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[alterego]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 10:09am

I like it. I also like the design of the recent french production which starred Leslie Caron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqqkVQFNAq4
Updated On: 6/8/10 at 10:09 AM

[AC126748]

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Posted: 6/8/10 at 10:12am

Most people who love the look of the revival have never seen another production of Night Music on stage.

And they either can't or won't comprehend why many of us don't love the look of the current revival.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body